Word: religion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...says. "I would like to see them [blacks] free and happy. I would like to see them preserve their own culture. It is just not in our nature either to integrate with them or oversee them. We only want to live among our own people, to live our own religion and to lead a rational, happy life...
...climax of the show, however, is not gold but vellum. If one were to trace to its source the ancient Irish reverence for language-for the Word as the incarnation of truth, as the fundamental building block of culture and religion-it would surely lie in the great illuminated codices of the 6th to 8th centuries, made and preserved in such monastic communities as Burrow, Kells and Lindisfarne. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word...
...primary objective of the colonialists was to bring civilization and religion to Africa, then the wealth and dazzling beauty of Africa was too tempting for their feeble minds. Civilization was brutal and savage; the cross lost track of the guiding light, and the primary motive of their cause became a dream betrayed. Instead of civilizing men they kept them in cages of ignorance; instead of freeing their victims they enslaved them. The cross became the cross to crucify the Africans because he was a heathen. The African continent must have been a golden treasure to the colonialists. Africa...
...further divided. Boundaries were carved out of their own selfish ends. The colonialists institutionalized an exploitative system under the guise of teaching the African. Big business was monopolized which deprived the indigenous African from participating. Slavery destroyed families and brought untold misery--a loss that will never be restored. Religion, although it exposed some of the ghastly wounds inflicted upon the native African by colonialism, did little to stimulate the mind of the African to think, to be creative, and to realize the not everything comes from God. Man has to build his own hut if the needs a place...
...last year's national elections, in which the Communists increased their hold over the large city governments as well as 2,778 towns and villages, Bettazzi wrote an open letter to the secretary-general asking whether local Communist governments could be counted on to guarantee full respect for religion...